New Outlook News Aggregator Build
January 6th, 2003 by gregr
Version 0.2 is now ready! Perfect for those folks who refuse to use a 0.1 version of anything. :-) Here’s a rundown of what’s changed:
- Improved RSS aggregator – removes numerous problems with certain RSS feeds.
- Tray icon now changes (lightning bolt) when news is being retrieved.
- Fixed insertion order of posts, so sorting within Outlook behaves as
expected. - GUI is now responsive during news retrieval operations.
- A retrieval cannot be triggered when a retrieval is already underway;
this solves some rare duplicate post problems. - The check news interval is now saved between sessions.
You can download the application, readme, and release notes here. And as before, please post your experiences!
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January 6th, 2003 at 5:02 pm
Works beautifully :)
January 6th, 2003 at 5:26 pm
Yesterday, I posted about the Outlook Newsreader that is coming to town. And I said I didn’t want to try it yet, because I needed to install some additional software. Well, Greg (the developer of the software) convinced and helped me, and now I got the thing running in version…[more]
January 7th, 2003 at 10:52 am
I haven’t check it out in a while but Abe Fettig’s Hep is a Python ap that allows you to view RSS feeds in just about any e-mail app, not just Outlook- http://www.fettig.net/projects/hep/
January 7th, 2003 at 1:58 pm
Two other questions, if I may Greg: (1) Do you plan on releasing the source, and (2) What version of Aggie are you using?
January 7th, 2003 at 2:25 pm
Ziv, I haven’t yet decided whether the source will be released for this, or if it will evolve into a commercial product. And it’s using the current Aggie source as of January 5.
January 7th, 2003 at 9:09 pm
Greg,
This is cool. One question though. The olnews.exe keeps running even after you have closed Outlook. I think the exe also needs to close with Outlook. Just a thought !!
January 10th, 2003 at 5:44 pm
This is excellent as an idea, but seems to have problems in implementation – early days I guess. It currently displays my name as the originator of all the items, as in
From: Nick Mendoza
Posted To: ….
Surely not the intent?
January 10th, 2003 at 5:44 pm
This is excellent as an idea, but seems to have problems in implementation – early days I guess. It currently displays my name as the originator of all the items, as in
From: Nick Mendoza
Posted To: ….
Surely not the intent?
January 10th, 2003 at 5:45 pm
This is excellent as an idea, but seems to have problems in implementation – early days I guess. It currently displays my name as the originator of all the items, as in
From: Nick Mendoza
Posted To: ….
Surely not the intent?
January 10th, 2003 at 8:33 pm
Installed, but for some reason, I’m only getting message titles — no message bodies. Strange.
January 10th, 2003 at 9:56 pm
Oh, duh — just read the release notes. My bad.
January 11th, 2003 at 3:35 pm
NewsGator (formerly the Outlook News Aggregator) has been released…[more]
January 11th, 2003 at 7:18 pm
Nick, you’re right, that isn’t the intent…although in some cases it’s unavoidable. 0.4 doesn’t address the problem (other than hiding the From column on some installations), but I’m hoping the next version will.
January 13th, 2003 at 10:17 am
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August 13th, 2003 at 2:21 am
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